Negotiation is a fundamental mechanism in distributed multi-agent systems. Since negotiation is a time-spending process, in many scenarios agents have to take into account the pas...
The expression of contracts in computer readable form, and the development of automated tests for completeness and well-formedness of contracts, has opened the door to significant...
Abstract. Automated negotiation techniques have received considerable attention over the past decade, and much progress has been made in developing negotiation protocols and strate...
Paul E. Dunne, Michael Laurence, Michael Wooldridg...
We present a generalized market architecture that provides support for a variety of types of transactions, from simple buying and selling of goods and services to complex multi-age...
John Collins, Ben Youngdahl, Scott Jamison, Bamsha...
In this paper we investigate the relationship between two problems, related to distributed systems, that are of particular interest in the context of Service Oriented Computing: at...